Development – Science to Art
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Family background of Nobel laureates (Berry, 1981; omitting physiology or medicine):
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Father academic professional: physics 28%, academic professional: physics 28%, chemistry 17%, literature 6% Father lost by age 16: physics 2%, chemistry lost by age 16: physics 2%, chemistry 11%, literature 17% 30% of latter “lost at least one parent through of latter lost at least one parent through death or desertion or experienced the father’s bankruptcy or impoverishment” whereas “the physicists, in particular, seem to have remarkably uneventful lives” (p. 387; cf. Raskin, 1936)